In our last episode, the party finally escapes the Wandering Castle and found themselves facing the maze master, a strange blue being who recites a riddle and then disappears. Join the party now as they work on solving the riddle, trying to find the Iron Gate mentioned at the end. Our adventurers today are Kieran who plays Wayland the Barbarian, Max who plays Playster the Monk. It's nice to help people, duh.
Theron who plays Day the Druid. I hope there's a monster in here and it eats me. And our DM Hazel. The oyster is waiting for the magic, but what are you two doing?
Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Chale. It's like a regular Dodo animal friends video over here. Well, look around, so Iron Gate, Iron Gate. Should we roll perception to see if we see an Iron Gate?
Yes, why don't you do that? I got a 12, not so perceptive today. 12 as well. I got a 15, mostly because I'm distracted by playing.
I see, I see. You do not see an Iron Gate. So, I mean, I guess we can do the same thing we did with the trees and just heading in the direction we were going? Probably.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay, you keep going and you find yourself entering a wooded area again.
And in this area, you see a brightly colored kite stuck in a tree. Okay, that's not on the sign. Red herring. Hm.
Strange. But okay, I will ignore it since stupid spell. Keep walking? Yep.
Okay. You see the dead oak tree in front of you. And then you are passing by the sign. Yeah, that's what I was afraid of, but okay.
So just to save time, let's just assume we go all the way back to the field. Right. Well, I mean, do we want to go check out the kite or do we want to go in a different direction from the field? Oh man.
I'm assuming last time I was kind of standing in the middle of the field. Can I try looking into the woods from like the edge of the field? If you want to do another perception check, you can. Okay.
Because the sign isn't next to like a gate or anything, right? No. Okay. This time I got a five.
So somehow I'm less even less perceptive. So it seems. Yeah. Maybe you're getting frustrated.
Probably. So we go back to the field and then continue. Did we just, are we going back to the kite and checking that out or? I mean, yeah.
Let's do that. Okay. So we get to the kite and we're in climbs and tries to get it out of the tree. You can get it out.
This string is all tangled up and there is a tear in one of the sails, but you have a kite. Anything attached to the kite anywhere written on it? Anything? No.
All right. I mean, I guess we can go back to a different direction. So turn around and walk back to the field. Okay.
Okay. Turn back and you start walking towards the field and you're walking past the sign again. Okay. So the kite, do I sell the kite in my hand?
How does it play on anybody picking anything up? No. Okay. Okay.
Good to know. Yeah. Back to the rain trees, back past the open field. It doesn't reset us when we go by the kite.
So that feels like the right direction to go. Do we have to maybe turn at that tree? Perhaps we'll look again for the iron gate there. So then we get to the kite and then look around for again for the gate again.
For the gate again. Okay. Make a perception checks. 17.
Six. You look around. None of you see it. No, you see a gate.
I have a question about the poem. Okay. The word iron is capitalized. Is that just you or is it just me?
Okay. That's just me. Okay. Anything like that is just me.
It's not important this time. I was assuming it was, but you know how poems are. Yeah. I've done that before, which is ridiculous because of how I do capital letters and stuff.
Just random capitals. Yeah. In this one, in this one, no, there's nothing like that. So the first time we went through the fields, we went south.
So I think that we should just try the other cardinal directions. Sure. It was south. No, you kept going in the same direction you were going.
And I thought that that was south east. Okay. I had you guys going east. Okay.
Okay. Well, that was me. We have, we don't have a map in front of us. We're just going to get some here.
Yeah. I wonder why that is that we don't have a map. So we'll try south and north. Yeah.
If south works, then we will not try north. Okay. You go south and you find yourself at an iron gate. So I will walk up to the gate, show wailing beer, and sit on the bench.
And I will also walk up to the gate and yell, palaisra, iron hoof, and then go sit on the bench and wait. And I will walk up to the gate and roar. And it does mean my name because I speak animals and then I'll go sit with them on the bench. Bear on a bench.
Is this like that tale of tales, not game where if you sit on the bench, you have like a one in ten chance of just dying sitting here. Dying sitting waiting on the bench. And like an old French song plays. And it's really hard to have no idea what I'm talking about.
Sorry, no. Such an incredibly deep cut. So how long do we wait for? You sit and wait.
It's a little while. It's not long though. After a while, you hear a roar at the gate. Oh, I don't like that.
I look over. What is it? You see yourselves standing on the other side of the gate. What?
What? I roar back and I walk over the gate sniffing. Is it really us? Is it really me?
Okay. I need an insight check. Twenty? Where are you?
Smells like you. Day in place for overing flower crowns though. Oh, what kind of flowers? The blue kind?
I wink at my past self. Don't. Excuse me? What?
I don't know. Oh, I can't talk about bear. Sorry. Okay, but don't worry about it.
You guys need to go back to the start and then head east to a clearing of blue flowers and then south to another clearing to find a shovel. Bring it back to us so we can get the key to this gate. Hmm. I think we're going to get some kind of time loop.
I don't like this. Can we break it? I mean, we're in a loop or we're going to be sitting here on this bench forever. So the choices aren't awesome either way.
There. Yeah, very fair. We aren't really sure, but we think it's the only way out. We saw versions of ourselves disappear with.
Which maybe isn't great, but we think it's the only way to get free. So far, you know, following instructions has been nothing but helpful. Sorry. Okay, so we head back to the beginning, which I think that we can just do by walking in a direction.
Well, wait, hold on. If we do it that way, though, how do we know it's not going to reset everything? I think we have to do anyway, specifically in the way, whatever way they told us to get there. They didn't tell us how to get there.
They said that from the starting point, we had to go east. They didn't tell us how to get there. I feel like we should walk straight back to the start point. Okay.
So you want to go back to the back to the north and then to the west, like to the field and then west to the hive and then back through the trees. Yeah, whatever it was. Yeah. North and north and west and west and south.
Sure. Okay. I've been keeping complete track. I haven't had that.
Absolutely. I'm not giving you the map for reasons. Well, yeah, because otherwise we can just see where we're supposed to go. Probably.
This is some fighting guy, which should be by the way. Yeah. Basically, I stole this from like the third game. This is from the island.
Oh, so then we should be like looking and tasting and touching. I think we've done that a bit. And then like there's probably like a reference to another LucasArts game somewhere. Unless this is the telltale version, in which case there's probably a Benang somewhere.
And then we all look at it and we go, buh-nang. I don't get it. Okay. Sorry.
I didn't say I'm in Max would get it. I didn't know that was a telltale thing. Okay. Yeah.
Anyway, you guys make it back to the starting area. And what do you want to do now? Go east. Okay.
You go east and you find yourself in this lovely clearing with a bunch of blue flowers all over the ground. Okay. Did they tell us that we would reach these blue flowers? They just.
Well, I mean, it's us. So probably we're probably going to have to record later like us telling us what to do. And for day it'll just be. If you think you would have told yourselves about the blue flowers, then you'd probably told yourselves about the blue flowers.
We should clear them with blue flowers and. And then go south. Can we have enough time for me to make flower crown? Yes.
We have time for me to play in the grass. I make a flower crown of blue flowers for myself. I want one. And one for day.
Thank you. And I put it on day's head as a bear. I guess I don't know. Yeah, I could make my own if not a bear.
If not bear. If not bear, then flower crown. Wait, Whelen doesn't want a flower crown? Not.
I mean, if you make one, he's not going to say no. He'll just put it on, but he's not going to request one. Anyway, flower crowns and then we go south. You go south and you find yourself in another clearing and this one has an X made of stones on the ground.
And in the center of that X, a shovel is sticking straight up out of the ground. Okay. I will walk over and pick up the shovel and then navigate the exact same way we came back to the iron fence. Yes, what he said.
Okay. You come back to the iron gate and your other cells are there. Probably looking fairly bored waiting for you to get back with the shovel. Found it.
And they will take the shovel from you and be like, we'll be right back with the key, hopefully. And they will leave and be gone for a while. God, this is weird. All right.
Well, chilling on the bench. Doo doo doo doo. You guys doing anything while you're waiting or are you just waiting? Hey, hey, hey, wailin.
Hey, wailin. What? Can you bench press that bench? Uh, I mean, I probably do it.
Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.
Do it. Do it. Do it. Fine.
It's just like a little bit of bench. I'm going to say it's stone. Okay. Because if it's just a wooden bench, I'm pretty sure it's at least before I was going to like get on it.
Or it's just there's a bear on the bench. Oh, she's snuckling. Probably. I'll say how big is a bear.
I think it's only medium. A few hundred pounds. I mean, wailin is very strong. That is true.
That's like a big person. Bears can still be like three to five hundred. I think. You guys are too much a bear base.
What kind of bear do you turn into? A black bear. Let's see. And 90 to 180 pounds.
Not very much at all. Oh, that's it. Then yeah, probably. You can probably bench press it.
Assuming the stone bench is like a hundred hundred fifty. You might be able to bench press 300 pounds. Let's do it. Bring out your dice.
Oh, no. Okay. Fine. I'll roll it.
I'm pressing the bear wearing a blue flower crown. It's much better than the last thing we asked for. Okay. Oh, I only rolled a nine.
Oh, damn. That's a two on the die. That's not going anywhere. You're just pushing yourself down into the grass.
Well, you know, since we're doing this, I may as well just full commit and just rage do it. I will I would like to reach and then try again with my athletics on strength checks. Nice. Yeah.
Much better. You bench and bear. Just like me for tavern. Yeah.
It's a good sign too. Oh, I did. All right. Curiosity satisfied.
And then I will take my place back on the bench. Continue sitting on it and waiting. Okay. Your other cells show up eventually and offer you the key.
Okay. I take it. I take it and I'm off the gate. Okay.
So they step through the gate. Playstra. The other version of you is walking towards you with a gleam in their eyes. Hey, well, we have a chance.
Do you? Oh, hell yes. And I make out with myself. And it's like, mmm, mmm, mmm.
And then after the me's thought that myself stop. What if them is like, Oh, damn. That dude is right. We are kind of bad at this.
And I forgot Stinky was here. So the two stinky snip each other. How many times must I see this? So day.
Bear day is heading towards you too. I head better. And Waylon, you're coming towards yourself with your fist raised. I bumped it.
That's the intro clips. Waylon, the Asimovar Barbarian. I bumped that. Then they disappear.
They disappear. Yep. Okay. Okay.
Okay. So your other cells are gone and the gate in front of you is open. So we go through, I guess. Yep.
So you walk through the gate. The key is appears from Waylon's hand and the gate just behind you. All right. The maze master reappears.
And he says, this just won't do it all. And he. Why? Because we solved your puzzle.
No, you're not quite done yet. It's a sign. It's buried in the mud. You pick it up and sets it back up right.
Then he starts reciting something and the words appear on the sign as he says them. Step forward into a giant hole and let it take you where you want to go from your cells demand a shovel. You remember where it is? That should be no trouble.
Take it to an ex made of bones past the skeletons lost with no home. North through a field of yellow flowers. The key beneath the bones does cower. Return with it to your cells and you'll be free from my maze of hell and the need to skip.
All right. Well, I guess he's telling the truth since we saw it happen already. So I guess we look around and look for the giant hole. You will if you step forward enough.
I'm going to keep stepping forward until I fall into a giant hole. I also will do that. You see a giant sinkhole in the ground before you get there. I can't fall into it.
Okay. Anybody else doing anything? Just going to walk and let myself fall into it. I walk and slide down.
Okay. So you guys all move through this giant hole and you find yourself. You're not at the gate. You can see the gate in the distance.
Okay. Okay. Then we walk back up to the gate. Yeah.
Do we hear like our friends? Do we hear like our pastels calling our names? You do. Oh, I roar at the gate to get our attention, right?
Okay. Yeah. So you know what happened. You see your bare self roaring back and coming over to sniff you.
I let it happen, I guess. I wink at my past self. Don't excuse me. What?
I don't know. Oh, I can't talk about there. Sorry. Okay.
But don't worry about it. You guys need to go back to the start and then head east to a clearing of blue flowers and then south to another clearing to find a shovel. Bring it back to us so we can get the key to this gate. Hmm.
I think we're going to get some kind of stuff. I think we're going to get some kind of time loop. I don't like this. Can we break it?
I mean, we're in a loop or we're going to be sitting here on this bench forever. So the choices aren't awesome either way. Fair. Yeah, very fair.
We aren't really sure. But we think it's the only way out. We saw versions of ourselves disappear which maybe isn't great. But we think it's the only way to get free.
So they will leave and you can wait for a while as they walk all the way back and grab a shovel and come back. Anything you want to do while you're waiting? I sit in the grass and pull at it. I think police are probably going to get a stick and like go back and get a stick.
And like go back and forth across the gate making this really annoying sound. I'm going to do that. If they're going to do that, I'm going to try and bite the stick out of their hand. Like it doesn't do it a couple of times and it'll start grading on me.
I think that Stinky is going to think this means that we're playing fetch and he's going to try to get the stick. He's going to bite like the other end of the stick. And then I'm going to let go and you two are going to fight over the stick. Well, that's fine.
I'm happy to play Tiger War with Stinky. You're not making the horrible noise anymore. So win, win. Yeah.
Also, I could destroy Stinky, but I don't make it seem like he has a chance of winning against a bear. Good boy. Good strong boy Stinky. Good strong boy.
Let me rub that tummy. So that's what we do while we wait. Nice. So your other selves return with a shovel.
I'm going to wink at my other self. Please help me. That was really the first time to do it. I mean, it's, you know, it's going to happen now.
Take it to an X made of bones. So bones. Good God. Did you have to do that?
Only because of the entire conversation that preceded it. Yes. I thought I'd let him behind, but okay. Did you tell him?
Guys, guys, guys, I'm worried. Is it obvious that my medication is worn off for the day? Yes. To be fair, I didn't take it.
I didn't take it. Go ahead. I'm glad. I'm glad.
You're doing a lot better than I would have. So it says take it to an X made of bones. Is it the same X that we had before? And like how did we get there?
It's like an inverse when it seems like. Yeah, I think it's somewhere on this side. It's like the opposite directions because we had to go south from the flowers on the other side. So this time we're going north through different colored flowers.
Okay. So we do that. Well, past the skeleton loss with no one. So we need to find skeletons.
I'm not sure actually about that part. I'm not sure about if the skeletons if that's just flavor or if there's actually something that matters with skeletons. Because I mean, we're looking for an X made of bones. So I guess I turned away from the gate and like is the is the pit there again?
Or is it gone? It's a it was a bit. I go down to where the pit was. Is it there still?
Yeah. Okay. You can get close enough to see that the pit is ahead of you without actually moving into the area. Are there skeletons somewhere also?
You can make a perception check. Okay. 24 long silences. Sorry.
I was looking at my description. So I knew how to describe things and it took me a little while to find it. So yeah, you look around and to the west, you see a you don't know if it's skeletons, but there's like this big tree and you see like bits of white fused into it. It looks very strange.
It could be could be skeletons. That makes sense because the other flowers were east. Okay. Let's head towards it.
But okay, we got to do a live show because I'm just mining walking every time we're going somewhere. You find somebody who wants to book us for a live show and I'll be there. You walk west and you get a better view of what's going on here and you see that there are three skeletons partially fused into a tree here. Cute.
Oh, Lord. They seem to have a home though. That tree. Yeah.
What we can just go north from there? No, we just continue passing the same. Okay. And then we should hit the yellow flowers.
Yeah. And then we go north. Right. So that route is correct where you go west to the patch of yellow flowers and then you go north.
You go west to the patch of yellow flowers and you go north and you see an ex made of bones. I sit on the ground and wait for Wayland to dig up the key. I was going to say is Wayland doing it or am I? I can build up the key.
I guess while Wayland is digging, I will take a bone and play fetch with Stinky with the bone. Nice. Do we want to roll for digging or roll for fetching? I don't think either one is necessary.
So yeah, you dig and you find the key. Is it a skeleton key? There's only one. It is an iron key.
Sensible. So we go back to the gate. And we already know what happens, I guess. Technically.
Try not to create any time paradoxes here. So you get back to the gate and your other cells are on the other side waiting. I hand myself the key and then I take it and unlock the gate. So this is your chance to interact with your past cells.
So what do you do? I'll probably want to. I want to make out with myself. Okay.
So you do that and you too? I had better. I guess I'll go for this bone. Then everything kind of fades away and you find yourself in an area you've not been in before.
Well, that was bizarre. Is the maze mastered here? Nope. Hate that little fucker.
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Thanks for this. Hazel, this was fun. I think I might have peaked on the I make out with myself. So enjoy that there.